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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. A few years ago, I wrote a paper for practitioners on the cost of capital , where I described the cost of capital as the Swiss Army knife of finance, because of its many uses.

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Harmonised Solutions Connect Exporters and Importers in Volatile Markets

Global Finance

Different financing goals, geopolitical risks, and interest rate changes as well as currency fluctuations often create hurdles that may endanger the completion of a deal. Meanwhile, your Serbian partner would like to have an attractive long-term financing. In today’s world, risks are global.

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Corporate Treasurers Proceeding With Caution

Global Finance

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions. It’s a predicament that started to emerge as far back as 2018.

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Best Financial Innovations 2024

Global Finance

Not only can market risk be better monitored, but market costs can be saved for participants: about $30 million so far, estimates CCDC. (CCDC), recently rolled out one of the world’s first public platforms for blockchain-based digital bond issuance.

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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

The debate about the front office, middle office, and back office in the finance industry is one of the sillier and more exhausting ones. First, note that these terms apply only to investment banks and related finance firms (private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.). Would you rather work in corporate development or private banking?

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SEC Issues Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022-2026

Reynolds Holding

capital markets at a higher rate than do market participants in other economies with their respective markets. For example, debt capital markets account for 80 percent of financing for non-financial corporations in the United States. The United States cannot take its remarkable capital markets for granted.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses New IRS Ruling Policy on Spin-Off Transactions

Reynolds Holding

On May 1, 2024, the IRS and the Department of the Treasury issued Rev. 2024-24 (the “New Rev. Other Ruling Policies Regarding Parent Debt Exchanges The New Rev. Effect of Transaction Related to the Spin-Off on SpinCo Securities The New Rev.